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BASEL. Nq. 338,165. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE B. CROGKER, OF PAVTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

EASEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,165, dated March16, 1886. Application filed October 21, 1885. Serial No. 180,474. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that l, EUGENE B. GRocKEE, of Pawtucket, in the county ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Easels, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this speciication.

My invention relates to folding easels, and has for its object theprovision of an easel that is readily folded and adjusted, and all partsof which are permanently fixed together.

To the above purpose my invention consists in the peculiar arrangementand construction ofthe shelf, brace,and side supports of the easel, ashereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation ofthe easel folded. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the easelopened and adjusted. Fig. 3 representsa side elevation of Fig. 2.

In the drawings like letters designate like parts.

The side supports consist of rods bent U- shaped at c and crossing oneanother at the points c d e, as shown in Figs. 'l and 2, where they aremade fast, and at the point h, where they are loose. The brace-rod s hasits foot bent into a snap-hook, 7c, and at a' point, h', above itscenter, it is loosely iiexed around the rods of the side supports (in aloop perpendicular to the axis of the said rod) at the` point h, forminga free `joint. The cross-rod r is made fast to the front of the sidesupports at equa-l distances above the bends a a. rlhe prop p is aV-shaped rod having its free ends loop-hinged around the cross-rod i',just within the bends a a, and hooked at Z l, forming the 4o shelf forthe easel, and adapted to take into the snap-hook 7c at its apex to propthe brace s when the easel is adjusted, as shown in Figs.

2 and 3, and adapted to be folded up, as shown in Fig. l, when the easelis folded. The cylyndrical-shaped bodies tt are merely orna- Inentsborne on the free ends of the supportrods. Of course the sidesupportsare in their functions constructively single rods, though only shown asdouble, being bent at a. 5o

Having thus described my invention, I claini as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. An easel having the side supports crossing abovetheir centers, and around which crossing-is looped the brace-rod, andhaving said side supports fixed] y connected near their bases by across-rod, to which is hinged a V shaped prop-rod, for the purposedescribed.

2. A folding easel having the side supports crossing above theircenters, and around which 6c is looped the brace-rod, and having saidside supports tixedly connected near their bases by a cross-rod, towhich is hinged a V-shaped prop-rod, the bent free ends of said propforming the shelfof the easel when adj usted, for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the side supports bent at c and having thecross-rod o, of the brace-rod s, having a snap-hook, k, andlooped at haround said side supports, and of the 7o prop-rod 1J, having the bentendsZ Z, and hinged to said rod r and taking into the snap-hook k, forthe purpose described.

EUGENE B. CROCKER.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH A. MILLER.

